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"Good day, my Captain," he cried, cheerily
The Spaniard raised his head, scowled ferociously, then waved a long, thin-bladed knife infashion
"Aha! So there you are, robber! Be off now before I slit your greedy little belly!" He spoke in an angry, husky voice When Jacket stood his ground he reached for him with a hand upon which blood and fish-scales had dried "Didn't I proive you to the soldiers if you came back to bother rinned broadly and with an impudent eye he scanned the empty premises "Where is my little fish?" he demanded "As I live, I believe you have sold it! God! What a miser! For the sake of another centavo you would see me starve? There's a heart for you!"
"YOUR little fish!" roared the brigand, clashing his blade on the filthy counter "No shark ever stole so many fish as you Come, I shall make an end of you, and have soourd"
"Yes, and quite as hollow I starve because you possess a heart of stone One little fish, no longer than your finger Just one?"
"Not so much as a fin!" cried the man "Can I feed all the rebels in Matanzas?"
"One little fish," Jacket wheedled, "for the sake of Miguelito, who is bravely fighting in theon the groans of good patriots like uelito was ive him food?"
"Liar!"
"It is true"
"You never saw hiuel Morin? With a scar on his neck? The bravest boy in all the Orient? Ask hiive me my fish! Or er?"
"What a nuisance!" gru a mackerel upon the table "There! I saved it for you, and sent the good women of Matanzas away eain and I shall open you with ood captain!" Jacket cried in triu himself of the prize "Where would I have been but for you?" Turning to O'Reilly, who had looked on from a distance at this artificial quarrel, he said, "Captain Morin, this is that brother Juan of whom I have told you"
Morin smiled at Johnnie and extended his dirty palm "The little fellow can speak the truth when he wishes, it seean to doubt that he had a brother What a boy, eh?" Leaning closer, he whispered, hoarsely: "It is cheaper to give him a fish than to have hireat liar Even yet I'uelito"